RichardCW got their new book cover by running a design contest:

Check out RichardCW's Book cover contest…

The Brief

Industry

Accounting & Financial

About us

We run wealth management organizations for individuals worth $100M or more, we help them start their own single family offices. The target audience are ultra-wealthy who pay attention to details, and are conservative but I also want the book to stand out.

What's your vision?

We would like a book cover designed for our new book called "How to Start a Family Office: A Business Plan for Setting up a Single Family Office" - We have written a book on the single family office industry before and this was the cover of that book, also design here on 99 Designs - http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C02a0kVyL._SX346_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
Since this book is related and about the creation of a single family office we would like a design that is one of two things:
1) A wire frame blue print, or architectural drawing of this same castle but showing it partially built. I have attached images of the castle if that helps.
2) A castle blueprint or construction of a castle that is partially built in real life image form to show the idea of a castle being built. In short we are building wealth management organizations for $100M+ net worth individuals so we want to show the building of a castle as us building their family office -that is the idea behind this theme.
We would like absolutely no clip art, no abstract images, and we would like a white or beige background again to match the theme of this last book pretty closely. We would like the family crest included on the cover that you see in that picture and we would like by Richard C. Wilson included as well.

The Brief

Other notes

Please only submit conservative, professional high-end designs, we will give feedback to all serious designs submitted but if the directions are not followed we may not have time to give you feedback. Please do not submit any radical colors, pink, purple, too much yellow, neon colors, etc - this has to look like something Goldman Sachs (one of our clients) themselves would put out...please think that level of quality.
Attached please find images that may be helpful with this project including the original castle images used on this last book cover and our family crest image as well, both strictly only for use on this project.
If you look very carefully at the book cover you will see the last designer integrated the family crest into the architecture of the stone above the front door of the castle, that was a nice touch and level of attention to detail that we are looking for here.
Another note - we do not want this book to look confusingly similar to our last book, so a white theme with a blue wire frame blueprint looking image of the castle structure or something that is different enough looking to tell the books apart at just a glance is important.
I would love for this to be the most cutting edge, professional book we have ever published, and I want it to look the part, thank you in advance for your submissions, if you want to see more bout what we do please see http://SingleFamilyOffices.com or http://FamilyOffices.com

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Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. Book cover starts at $299.

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Full copyright with production-ready files for digital and/or print.

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It all began with a design brief.

A quick, interactive guide helped them understand their design style and captured exactly what they needed in their book cover.

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A contest allows you to open your design brief to our global community of creative designers. Designers submit concepts based on your needs and you pick your favorite as the winner.

Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. Book cover starts at $299.

Designers across the globe delivered design magic.

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And then… they selected a winner!

Client review

He did everything I asked for, and added a unique dark great touch to the cover.

Romian Toma

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